Author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Portrait of Mikhail Bulgakov.
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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

written 1928–1940; published 1966–1967 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel

The Master and Margarita interweaves two stories: the visit of the Devil to Soviet Moscow in the 1930s and a novel about Pontius Pilate written by an unnamed author known as the Master. On a hot spring evening at Patriarch's Ponds, the literary bureaucrat Mikhail Berlioz and the young poet Ivan Bezdomny are discussing the non-existence of Jesus when a mysterious foreigner joins them.

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